VOLUME 148 ISSUE 21 | THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2025
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Buck Moon over North State July’s full moon rose last week, photographed from the 16th tee at Pinehurst No. 3.
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BRIEF this week
Pittsboro launches Chantal recovery resource website The City of Pittsboro has launched a website with resources to help those affected by flooding and damage from Tropical Storm Chantal, serving as a centralized hub for storm-related information, guidance and local assistance. Visit it at pittsboronc.gov/chantal
Inflation ticks up slightly in June Consumer prices rose 2.7% in June from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Tuesday, up from an annual increase of 2.4% in May. On a monthly basis, prices climbed 0.3% from May to June, after rising just 0.1% the previous month.
Bank of America reports $7.12B net income in Q2, surpasses earnings expectations Charlotte Bank of America Corp. on Wednesday reported second-quarter net income of $7.12 billion. The company said it had earnings of 89 cents per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 86 cents per share. The nation’s second-largest bank posted revenue net of interest expense of $26.46 billion, which did not meet Street forecasts.
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Pittsboro approves multiple city property purchases The town acquired approximately six acres of property for a total cost $2.15 million By Ryan Henkel Chatham News & Record PITTSBORO — The Town of Pittsboro Board of Commissioners had an agenda primarily
filled with various property matters when it met for its July 14 regular business meeting. The board approved the purchase of multiple properties, including nearly three acres of property located at 205 JA Farrell St. for the price of $700,000. “It was appraised for $1.45 million and has a tax value of $857,000, so this is a pretty good
deal,” said Town Manager Jonathan Franklin. The second purchase was for the acquisition of approximately three acres of property located at 274 Pittsboro Elementary School Road (also known as the RAFI Building) for the price of $1.45 million. The property is intended to be an expansion of the McClenahan Street Park, and the build-
State’s first standalone children’s hospital coming to Wake County North Carolina Children’s will bring approximately 8,000 jobs to Apex The Associated Press APEX — North Carolina’s first standalone children’s hospital will be built in Wake Coun-
ty, the project’s health systems announced last Thursday, creating a campus estimated to bring 8,000 jobs to the area. UNC Health and Duke Health announced in January an agreement to jointly build the proposed 500-bed pediatric hospital and linked facilities in the state’s Research Triangle region, which
includes Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. At that time, the specific location wasn’t finalized. But leaders of the health systems said last week that the North Carolina Children’s project will be constructed about 20 miles See HOSPITAL, page A2
Next-generation 911 systems proving their worth in NC, FL “It’s really quite remarkable how well 911 works despite those challenges.” Michael Martin, CEO of RapidSOS
North Carolina’s system saw success during Helene By Freida Frisaro The Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — When an emergency happens in Collier County, Florida, the 911 calls go to one of the most high-tech communications centers in the U.S., where callers can send text and video from the scene to dispatchers. Moving to what’s known as an NG911 — or Next Generation 911 — system is a journey Sheriff Kevin Rambosk and Bob Finney, the county’s director of communication, have been on for much of the past decade. It’s a long way from Feb.
16, 1968, when Alabama’s then-House Speaker Rankin Fite made the nation’s very first 911 call in Haleyville, Alabama, on a bright red, rotary-style landline telephone. That ceremonial call came just 35 days after AT&T announced plans to use 911 as a nationwide emergency number. Today, most calls to 911 originate with cellphones, with dispatchers in upgraded centers using geotracking to get accurate geographic locations from callers. But the response time in an emergency depends on the type of technology being used at any of the 6,000 emergency communications centers in the U.S. See 911, page A3
ing will be utilized as office and operational spaces for the Parks and Recreation Department and eventually as a community center as well. “We are in the pre-engineering of a town hall project, and this actually would save us about $1 million on space needed because we’d be pulling Parks and Rec out of that. So essentially we’re getting three acres to improve McClenahan Park for $450,000,” Franklin said. “That’s kind of the way I’m looking at it.” The board also approved the sale of property, 21 acres of an approximately 54-acre parcel See BOARD, page A7
“I’m really excited about what the children’s hospital means for children of North Carolina who are sick and in need of the best, most sophisticated, advanced medical interventions to live long, healthy lives.” Gov. Josh Stein